discardia

I ran into a weird issue with my last cell phone… it duplicated (sometimes tripling or quadrupling) many recurring events. I had four Christmas Day events on Dec. 25, and three birthday reminders for my mom, etc. But I was having a hard time deleting them all without removing the ones I actually wanted to keep.

So in Outlook, I set my Calendar’s Current View to “By Category”. This handily sorted all the recurring events and duplicated events into a nice list sorted by Holidays and the like. I then just highlighted everything I didn’t want, including all the holidays, old events, stale recurring appointments, and then hit Delete.

Piece of cake.

Then I went back into Calendar options, and clicked the “Add Holidays” button to populate my calendar with the correct Holiday events.

I figured this would come in handy whenever someone wanted to clean up a calendar of never-ending recurring events. A easily selectable list makes managing multiple events a simple thing.

At least that’s what I like to think.